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it’s weirder yet that Greenland was actually green when Eric the Red got there. When the Little Ice Age began around 1300, by 1350 between the pugnacious innuit arriving and the ice forming, the Norse had to leave. Pretty hard to farm in ice and invading tribes made it untenable..It’s also why I laugh when someone tries to claim an ice core from where the vikings used to farm is “100,000 years old” when the oldest ice in the coring is ~650 years.

The way I heard the story (and I’m not saying it was more accurate) is that, when Eric founded the Greenland colony, he observed that colonists were discouraged from moving to (the significantly greener) Iceland because of the name. The book I have agrees that the Little Ice Age made that barely habitable fringe of land into something incapable of supporting any kind of agriculture and the colony disappeared. Greenland is said to have had forested land back in the 12th century, though, and that certainly has not come back… So who knows?

About Dark Side of the Horse

Behold, an un-pale horse with no name. Oh, wait. His name is Horace. And he's sarcastic. And silly. And lives in an infinitely expandable world. And sometimes gets slapstuck. And day after unpredictable day he boldly goes where no horse -- let alone a comic strip -- has gone before. Yes, there are sidekicks; a bird, a lady horse, a never-seen neighbor. And if the post-it note did not exist, Samson would have had to invent it so Horace would have yellow panels in which to play. Welcome to the bright side of the world. May the horse be with you.